No. 193

Tract Number 193

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Where Do We Stand?

by Sarah E. Bowie

This is a question so often asked in reference to religious beliefs; also which group are you with? or, what do you believe? These are peculiar questions to ask in a Christian Nation (so-called) whose citizens know there is but ONE God, one heaven, one hell, only one side to choose, right or wrong, truth or error, good or bad, God or the devil, heaven or hell. A righteous God has a holy law, for ALL people. By this law we ALL stand or fall, live in triumph or defeat. We are free to choose, yet not free to go where we want to go when we leave this life, if we choose other than God’s way. Men tell us to go to the church of your choice; but God demands of us the Church of HIS choice (blood-bought) composed of all of the Blood-washed and holy Saints in heaven and on this earth. It’s rather late to start searching for realities, but we had better redeem the time left to us; destruction is on our track. Satan was NEVER more alert to defeat our souls than now, for he too is using the short time he knows is his.

Some have asked the question, “Where are we, on God’s time clock; on His map of spiritual location, where are we? Are you studying the map to find your place?? Or, are you only searching road maps to find a place of fun, frolic and luxury or ease?? This is a deceptive age, when our eternal soul is valued so cheap. A sleepy, drowsy, complacent, indifferent age we are in NOW, and it’s getting worse so swiftly.

For years, the fear of God has been departing from the ministry, as seen by the flock of God, and the food has become less and less nourishing, until many have long ago starved to death, and weak and languishing ones can scarcely breathe the breath of God, but God has heard their cry, and they have heard His call, to come up hither to the Mt. of God’s holiness, in this Seventh Seal opening of His bountiful storehouse of plenty; and so many yet are seeking to make their escape from modern day Babylon walls. You must press your way to this pathway of greater light, for many will seek (lightly) to enter, and not be able (price too great for them) but this is God’s LAST CALL, and the door will soon close. I want you to answer the most serious question ...where do you stand in God’s sight? It’s not where you THINK or just BELIEVE in your mind, but you can and must be sure WHERE AND HOW you STAND in the Word of God, for THIS SHALL judge you and me in the last day.

We know that MANY are fooling around with this and that idea of man, and putting on a show and making loud acclamations about the Holy ghost, and great numbers and wealth in money and such boasting of carnality, but the test is on.. Jesus says, if ye LOVE ME, ye WILL keep my WORDS, then you will measure up to 1st Corinthians 13th chapter, for he that loveth not ... KNOWETH NOT God. There is no greater power given of God than His love. Many are crying for power, and do not realize what it is, unless it is the expression of God’s love, it is a falsity, and human or satanic. For we MUST NOT overlook the fact stated in the Bible by Paul that Satan has TRANSFORMED himself INTO an angel OF LIGHT IN THESE DAYS of God’s LIGHT, and also has his ministers like he is, (whitewashed) and people are being deceived by the millions TODAY.

In the face of these BIBLICAL FACTS--where do you stand, commended of God or man?? 2nd Corinthians 10:18 reads, “Not he that commendeth himself is approved, BUT whom the Lord COMMENDETH. My brother, sister, won’t you please lay down your puny arms of resistance against God’s truth and make your calling and election SURE in God just now? Ask your soul honestly, where do I stand right now in God’s all-knowing mind?? How do I rate when HE measures me by HIS MEASUREMENTS?? Remember Jesus is coming back to get THE CHURCH OF HIS choice, not your CHOICE as so many are hiding in. It will not be --- what group are you with? What’s your discipline?? He’ll not ask you, are you in good standing with your group, but HE WILL say, WHEN I SEE THE BLOOD, I WILL PASS OVER YOU. THIS is the ONLY passport to glory, and entrance into His church here also. Have you been blown about by every WIND of doctrine, and are you so confused and mixed up, you know not where to turn??? Are you hearing so many beliefs and doctrines until you couldn’t choose if you tried to select one? Look into your King James version of the Bible, God’s authority and truth, and life, and open your heart to God and TRUST HIM to lead you a-right. He will speak to you so clear, if you ASK for the old paths and THE RIGHT WAY and will, to walk therein. Jeremiah 6:16. God will never waste holy things on lazy indifferent people. He has a place for all of His creation, if we will accept HIS choice. There is a DEFINITE LAW that governs everything that we use, and if we deviate from this we have no perfect job. We hear so many say, Oh this doesn’t matter. I see no harm in this or that. I don’t believe God requires this or that, do the best you know; if I believe this and that, God will not reject us. Listen, such ideas will give every type of person a right to believe what he chooses to, and be lost and ALL who follow such leaders will also reap the same. Matthew 15: 13, 14. Luke 6: 43-45, Moses was a little uncertain one time, but he went to God and HE told Moses to go and stand upon a Rock, and allow Him to cover him in the cleft of the rock and His glory would be seen. This is the secret all need to learn.

If you are tempest tossed by the flesh, world, and the devil, “tell Jesus.” He is our Deliverer and Sanctifier and Keeper of soul and body. He is a great Saviour, a tender Shepherd, but we must eat from HIM and drink of the living water He offers to us for Eternal life. Stagnated pools, and broken cisterns will NEVER quench your thirsty soul. CHRIST IS OUR ALL SUFFICIENCY IN EVERY NEED. He who calmed the raging sea, and made the waters stand back and let Israel cross over from the wrath of old PHARAOH and spoke, and they rolled back and destroyed his army. He who holds the waters of the sea, oceans, and lakes, and all else in THE HOLLOW of HIS hand, can HE not direct us in this little old body of clay?? I’ll tell you where the trouble is, nature, of His creation does NOT resist her God, ONLY MAN whom He gave freedom of choice, but we will NEVER choose when life’s breath is gone. God takes over then, in defiance of your will.

Will you confess - where do you stand?? With God on HIS terms, or some man, outside of God’s true church. So many are so willing to be in a church among churches, but God’s plan is so different, so outstanding when He has our full cooperation under the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Are you with God to the limit? Or, are you with a group that just glides along with the crowd, and your soul is never stirred?? Is your heart hungry for the living Bread and sparkling Water, or do you stand with the flesh-feeders, with a name that lives, BUT is dead (spiritually). Dead bodies breed diseases that will foul the living. Are you standing for or against full truth? Nothing LESS will admit you and bless your labors. Are you standing or falling, slowly succumbing to deception until you go blind to your real condition? It is a fact that you can do this until God will give you up to a strong delusion (2nd Thessalonians 2:10,12) and CAUSE YOU to believe a lie and you will be lost. It’s a sad picture today, men and women walking around DEAD and do not care, right in Church of God places (so called). False doctrine is so deceiving, so little resistance to the flesh and world. Not stopping to hear Paul say, ‘If ye live after the flesh, YE SHALL DIE, but if through the Spirit you mortify (put to death) the flesh ye shall LIVE."

We have HIS TREASURE in earthen vessels, and, He is overseer and we must obey the laws of this treasure. We are not our own, we are bought with a price, OUR body is for the dwelling of the Holy Ghost said Paul, 1st Corinthians 6:19,20. Since together we stand, or divided we fall, it is so very important to prayerfully consider, Where do you stand?? Eternity is so real, whether it’s heaven or hell. God IS REAL, so is the devil, but he is a liar, murderer, thief, deceiver and a whipped foe, if we are in God’s hands, for he is subject to God’s word as we use it, IN Jesus Name. Where do you stand today? This depends on who and what you believe, and we must not only believe, but KNOW where we are. This will settle it as to where we will stand in eternity. As the tree falls so shall it lie. Ecclesiastes 11:3.

There is only ONE true foundation upon which we can build for eternity, Christ Jesus. No other can any man lay and be safe. Jesus likens the foundations of men as building on SAND. Who would dare build a home on a sandy foundation? You know that would be so unwise and dangerous. Jesus then tells us of the true lasting foundation and says it is a ROCK or that which is solid and safe and secure. When men begin a building or home, the place is chosen, then the foundation laid, then built. How important it is to where, what, and how to build for ETERNITY. Where do you stand today, on sand, or on the solid rock, Christ Jesus? It’s worth everything to build secure for eternity. Build on the true foundation, and regard not the storms and winds of opposition, and the cost of it all will be nothing, compared to the VALUE.

I write these lines of exhortation, because I have tested and proved all else false and dangerous to build on except the ONE Jesus’ laid. He is the tried STONE, which builders (men) rejected BUT HE is still the head of the corner. The ONLY FOUNDATION THAT HAS STOOD the tests of time and will, unto the END. You may say I will stand where I’ve always stood, since Mother and Dad taught me. Well, you had better take inventory in time. God said in His Word, cursed is he that sets LIGHT by his mother and father. What they had was good IF it was of God, but you and I can’t walk in their light. The pathway of the JUST is as a shining LIGHT which shines brighter ALL the way. Proverbs 4:18. What was light to them in bygone years is STILL God’s truth, but HE is still turning on light in a brighter sense. It’s the light of the Gospel, that is the power of God unto salvation to ALL that believe it in the heart, and let it produce in life the fruit of THE SPIRIT. I ask you, where do YOU stand?? My heart is burdened to see God’s people together in the Lord, following the White Horse Rider (Jesus) to victory.

Revelation 19:3-16 (read it). Stir your mind and heart and lay hold upon God to locate your standing in life for Him. This is a serious matter. God will help you, if you put forth the effort.